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Fertilizer Prices Look Better To No-Tillers

May 4, 2010

No-tillers are benefiting from lower and more stable fertilizer prices this spring, according to a Purdue University expert.

USDA: Corn, Soybeans Yield Record Highs

January 12, 2010

The final report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture on the 2009 corn and soybean harvest is one for the record books. Despite poor planting conditions, a cool, wet growing season, and an abysmal harvest that still sees mostly corn standing in fields, American farmers shattered records for both yield per acre and total production.

Aphid Host Buckthorn Being Studied For Impact

January 12, 2010 | Posted in Crop Protection

An exotic invasive shrub, introduced in the 1800s as a garden plant, is being studied to demonstrate how its presence has a cascading damaging effect on natural flora and fauna, no-till agriculture and public health. Ohio State University entomologists are collaborating with Michigan State University and Iowa State University in a three-year research project to determine the distribution of buckthorn throughout Michigan, Ohio, Minnesota and Iowa.

Syngenta Weeding Out Hunger At NNTC

December 31, 2009

Source: http://www.weedingouthunger.com

Syngenta Crop Protection and Halex GT corn herbicide are Weeding Out Hunger at the 2010 National No-Tillage Conference in Des Moines from Jan. 13 to 16.

Biotech Crop Usage Continues To Climb

November 19, 2009 | Posted in Crop Protection

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. farmers have embraced biotech varieties of no-till soybeans, cotton and corn at the rate of 91%, 88% and 85%, respectively.

Corn, Bean Acres Expected To Rise

September 13, 2009 | Posted in Seeding & Planting

Nationally, soybean acres are projected at 78.1 million acres, up 1 percent from last year, while corn is expected to be at 88.8 million acres, up 3 percent from 2009. This means U.S. growers could harvest a record-large 13.1 billion bushels of corn and a near-record 3.3 billion bushels of soybeans.

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More Carbon, No-Till Corn

By Frank Lessiter posted on November 1, 2004 | Posted in Soil Health

Although previous studies have indicated significant carbon losses from plowing, a new Agricultural Research Service study indicates that there may not be a huge loss if a farmer plows only once.

Without Herbicides, No-Till Would Disappear

Yet the impact on food production would be so dramatic that America could not live without no-till.

By Frank Lessiter posted on July 1, 2003 | Posted in Crop Protection

While you're certainly not about to lose the use of herbicides, you need to fully understand that any ban on agricultural chemicals would bring an end to all the benefits you’re getting from no-tilling.

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Biotech Leads To More No-Tilled Acres

July 1, 2003 | Posted in Crop Protection, Seeding & Planting

Since herbicide-tolerant transgenic cotton varieties became widely available in 1997, the no-till cotton acreage has nearly doubled in the United States. A recent survey by the National Cotton Council indicates that no-till made up 29 percent of total cotton acres while reduced tillage made up 30 percent of all cotton acres in 2002.

New Herbicide Offers No-Till Grass Control With Residual Broadleaf Control

June 1, 2003 | Posted in Crop Protection

A broad spectrum herbicide that effectively controls grasses such as foxtails, johnsongrass and shattercane in no-tilled corn was introduced just in time for the 2003 growing season by Bayer CropScience. Featuring recent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approval, the herbicide will control broadleaf weeds such as cocklebur, lambsquarters, morningglory, ragweed, sunflower and velvetleaf.

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